Motherboards :idea: tiny mobo needed

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  1. Pluribus

    Pluribus What's a Dremel?

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    Hi everyone

    I am planning my next build and I want to go small. Not micro atx small but tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny small. As small as I can possibly get.

    My idea thus far is:

    Tiny mobo with S-Video port - need
    SD card HDD - have in the form of a SD to sata converter. I've also got an SD to IDE converter.
    Laptop size ram (if possible) - have oodles of
    Bluetooth - I've got one of those tiny USB bluetooth dongle things, about the size of my pinky finger nail
    External power supply to keep case size as small as possible

    I wont require an optical drive, firewire etc. All I need is an external sd card slot and a couple of USB slots. Oh, and a headphone jack so I can plug in a set of speakers...

    I know this wont be the most powerful machine but it will be more than capable of playing a single movie or album onto my LCD TV.

    I will probably run Windows 98SE and K-Lite Codec Pack / VLC player. I wont be using it for anything else so I will disable all unnecessary services and software to save space and power.

    I have a couple of 4Gb SD cards and also a few 16Gb CF cards (if its cheaper that way) to use as the HDD.

    I will even consider an early or even pre (gasp!) pentium board. I used to run a media server off an old IBM 486 DX266 PC with - wait for it - a humungous 64mb RAM so I know its technically possible.

    Any ideas?

    Ian
     
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    Pluribus What's a Dremel?

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    There's really no one with any ideas???
     

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